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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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height="86" width="105" align="left">We seem to
have a posting about smartphones once every six
weeks or so, which is probably a good indication
of how much that topic dominates tech news these
days. Smartphones are great for mobile Internet
and for other forms of communication, even phone
calls (believe it or not). But smartphones are
also increasingly becoming key components of the <a
href="http://www.wfs.org/blogs/thomas-frey/empowering-%E2%80%9Cthings%E2%80%9D-for-our-internet-things">Internet
of things</a>, because they contain many sensors
that the smartphone owner may only occasionally
use, but are continuously gathering data that can
be very handy when used for purposes that you may
not have considered.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57578982-85/smartphone-innovation-where-were-going-next-smartphones-unlocked/">Smartphone
innovation: Where we're going next</a>
(CNET/Jessica Dolcourt) "You may have never
given two thoughts to the sensors that come on
your smartphone. They don't mind. They're still
there anyway, computing data on your phone's
movement and speed, rotation, and lighting
conditions. These under-appreciated components -
the gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, and
so forth - are starting to get more friends in
the neighborhood."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/05/shutterbox-turns-your-android-phone-into-a-sophisticated-sensor-laden-remote-camera-trigger/">ShutterBox
turns your Android phone into a sophisticated,
sensor-laden remote camera trigger</a>
(TechCrunch/Darrell Etherington) "The ShutterBox
is an extension of that tech, which features a
hot shoe-mounted receiver box [attached to a
camera] that communicates wirelessly with your
Android smartphone via Bluetooth. It uses the
phone's built-in sensors for triggering
automatic shutter activation, including light
sensors for lightning, as well as motion
detection for capturing wildlife or other
movement-based events."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://triblive.com/business/headlines/3816699-74/pelican-camera-image#axzz2QdNAW2m2">New
smartphone camera could have system to sense
depth perception</a> (Tribune-Review/Troy
Wolverton) "But because of their small size and,
in some cases, high resolution, the new cameras
could be used in a wide range of other
applications. In the future, they could be
employed in more precise versions of Microsoft's
Kinect, the gesture-sensing game controller; in
cars as collision-preventing backup cameras; as
identification systems that can precisely
distinguish individual faces; and in a kind of
three-dimensional scanner for 3-D printing."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://singularityhub.com/2013/04/01/sensors-in-smartphones-galaxy-s4-adds-pressure-temperature-and-humidity-sensors/">Sensors
in smartphones: Galaxy S4 adds pressure,
temperature, and humidity sensors</a>
(Singularity Hub/Jason Dorrier) "Why couldn't
these sensors do for weather what Google Maps
does for traffic? As readers likely know, Google
strips smartphone <a
href="http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2549020">GPS
data</a> of personal information, assembles
it, and sends it back to users as real-time
traffic estimates. The results are increasingly
accurate traffic forecasts and route time
estimates-a serious improvement on chopper
reports from the local radio station. Using
millions of smartphone data points, developers
could knock out apps rendering detailed heat,
humidity, and pressure maps and bundle them into
weather apps."</li>
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fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Sales of
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which is
another way to say "sensors," saw <a
href="http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800683888_480500_NT_4e05618c.HTM">double-digit
growth</a> last year, largely because of their
use in mobile phones and tablets.
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